Vietnamese students receive AEON Scholarships

Students from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Photo VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - The AEON 1% Club
Foundation, a member of Japanese retail and financial services corporation
AEON, granted 60 scholarships to Vietnamese university students at a ceremony
held in Hanoi on December 12.

Yohsei Honda, Secretary General of the AEON
1% Club Foundation, said the AEON Scholarship is an allowance-based scholarship
for university students in various Asian countries and self-financed Asian
students studying in Japan.

The project, designed to “Support the Dreams
of Asian Students”, was started in 2006 in the hope that recipients will play
an active role in the future, connecting their home countries with Japan in
their respective specialist fields. In addition to year-round financial
support, the project offers opportunities for various study curriculums and
volunteer activities aimed at scholarship students studying in Japan, and provides
support for students aiming to develop into global talent.

In Vietnam, the "AEON Scholarship"
has been awarded to a total of 626 university students, including two
universities in Hanoi since 2012 and two in Ho Chi Minh City since 2011.

This year in Hanoi, students from the
University of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Foreign Trade University
were honoured to receive the scholarships. At the Scholarship Certificate
Granting Ceremony, scholarship students gave speeches on their personal dreams
and goals.

Honda said the AEON 1% Club Foundation was
established in 1989 in Japan, has been operating based on 1 percent of pre-tax
profit donated by the major AEON Group companies, engaging in projects with
three main themes of “Sound Development of the Next Generation, Promotion of
Friendship with Foreign Countries, and Sustainable Development of Regional
Communities.”

A similar scholarship awarding ceremony will
take place in HCM City on December 13.

Since its establishment, the "AEON
scholarship" has supported 5,117 students in 35 universities and colleges
across Japan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia and Myanmar. -VNA